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In Weld County, not all energy production is created equal. If a proposed ordinance goes through, solar farms won’t enjoy the same access to agriculturally zoned land — which covers about 75 percent of the county — that oil and gas drilling and coal mining enjoy. The potential law requires all solar facilities sit on land zoned industrial, which is ...

Twenty-nine states and the District of Columbia have requirements that utilities get a certain amount of their electricity from renewable sources. Nine additional states have goals for renewable energy, while a dozen others have no targets. A state-by-state look at renewable energy policies. ALABAMA No renewable energy standard. ALASKA A bill passed in 2010 sets a goal, but not a ...

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Congress voted on Friday to repeal the 40-year-old ban on exporting U.S. crude oil in an energy policy shift sought by Republicans as part of a bipartisan deal that also provided unprecedented tax incentives for wind and solar power. The Senate, on a 65-33 vote, approved lifting the ban and providing five-year extensions of tax breaks ...

President Barack Obama signed into law a $1.1 trillion government funding bill Friday afternoon, dodging a government shutdown and ending a 40-year-old crude oil export ban. U.S producers will now be able to sell crude to the international market. Republicans made lifting the export ban a top priority. They argued the ban was a relic of the Arab oil embargo ...

WASHINGTON — Republicans are hailing the likely demise of a 40-year-old ban on crude oil exports, as well as spending limits imposed on the Environmental Protection Agency, a longtime GOP target. Democrats are cheering five-year extensions of tax credits for wind and solar energy producers and renewal of a land and water conservation fund that protects parks, public lands, historic ...

WASHINGTON – Talks among congressional leaders on a $1.15 trillion bill to keep the U.S. government funded were being held up by a dispute over energy policy with Republicans seeking to end an oil export ban and Democrats saying any such action must be coupled with clean energy incentives, Democrats said on Tuesday. Republican leaders said an agreement being negotiated ...

PARIS – European utilities executives meeting at the Paris Climate Conference know they are part of the problem. What they have not yet figured out is how to make money by being part of the solution to climate change. For decades, power plants owned by the likes of RWE, Enel and EDF have been among Europe’s worst polluters. When governments ...

PARIS — Some 180 countries have already presented plans to cut or rein in their climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions. That’s a huge step forward for the U.N. climate talks but a host of difficult issues remain to be resolved before a new climate agreement can be adopted in Paris. Here are some of the most important ones: THE FIREWALL The ...

It’s official — Black Hills Energy can build a $100 million wind farm complex in Huerfano and Las Animas counties and Pueblo ratepayers won’t see much of that cost in their monthly rates for 10 years. The Colorado Public Utilities Commission gave final approval to the wind farm proposal Wednesday and a major reason was Black Hills already had reached ...

When Black Hills Energy acquires the Peak View Wind Project wind farm next year, the 60 megawatt power complex will mean the utility will be generating 18 percent of its power supply from various renewable sources. State law currently requires Black Hills and Xcel Energy, the state’s two investor-owned utilities, to generate 20 percent of their power from renewable sources ...

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